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| An Overview of Life Course Theory and Research | |
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| Overview | |
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| Four Million Babies | |
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| The Life Course Perspective | |
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| Criminal Careers, Career Criminals and the Rise of the Life Course Approach | |
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| Important Theoretical Concepts and Issues | |
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| Major Developmental Studies | |
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| Plan of the Book | |
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| Biology and the Family: Initial Trajectories | |
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| Overview | |
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| Starting Behind the Starting Line: Biology and Crime | |
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| Behavioral Genetics and Antisocial Behavior | |
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| Biological Bases of Delinquent Behavior | |
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| Families: Structure, Support, and Discipline | |
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| How Early Can Trouble Start? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Adolescence and Crime: Continuity, Change, and Cumulating Disadvantages | |
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| Overview | |
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| Societal Age-Crime Patterns | |
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| Adolescent Trajectories in Crime: Discovery of the Chronic Offender | |
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| Explaining Offending Trajectories | |
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| Terrie Moffitt: Complementary Pair of Developmental Theories | |
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| Robert Sampson and John Laub: Age Graded Theory of Informal Social Control | |
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| John Hagan: Criminal Capital and Capital Disinvestment | |
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| Terence P. Thornberry: Interactional Theory of Delinquency | |
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| Delbert Elliott: Integrated Theory | |
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| Summary | |
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| Adulthood and Aging Criminals | |
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| Overview | |
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| Cumulative Disadvantage: Adult Consequences of Juvenile Crime | |
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| Employment | |
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| Marriage, Children, and Family | |
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| Summary | |
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| White-Collar Crime and the Life Course | |
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| Overview | |
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| The Concept of White-Collar Crime | |
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| Applying the Life Course Approach to White-Collar Offenders | |
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| The Social Locations of White-Collar and Common Onset of Offending and Trajectories in Crime | |
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| Family Background and Educational Trajectories | |
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| Conviction as an Event in the Life Course of White-Collar Offenders | |
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| White-Collar Crime and the Life Course | |
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| Summary | |
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| Historical and Structural Contexts | |
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| Overview: Four Million Babies in History | |
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| The Maturity Gap | |
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| The Prison Experiment and the War on Drugs | |
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| Public Policy, Globalization, and the Inner City | |
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| Summing Up: Crime and the Life Course | |
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| A Final Conclusion | |
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| Offenders | |